let's get a response from sam quinones. sam: that is an approach that continues to this day and part of it is under the heading of what they call medically assisted treatment which involves certain medications, occasionally opioids of a lower potency to calm cravings or blunt overdoses. it's very important. it needs to be out there and needs to be in far wider use, it seems to me because particularly you have fentanyl out there doing enormous damage. you do have experiments now beginning in vancouver and new york city with what are called safe consumption, the addict will go into this place and use your drug in the presence or nearby a nurse who can then revive you if you then overdose on whatever it is you are using. supposedly, and i think a lot could be going on. i have not visited one yet. this is a place where you are introduced, nudged, perhaps urged to consider drug addiction treatment. i would say this approach is an interesting one. i don't think we are in a situation where we should say no to anything but i also t

sam quiÑones joined us to talk about the opioid and drug epidemic in the united states he also talked about the legalization of drugs. here's a portion of what he had to say. i would like to see. i guess personally let me say i would like to see us legalize one drug well. and right now we are mangling the job with marijuana in my opinion. you know, what is it? what is one of the you know, think about it? what is one of the great lessons of the opioid epidemic? right i believe this is one. be careful. be careful what very potent. drug, you make legal? and widely available. without landish claims about its risk-free in nature. that's what that's a whole story of opioids in our country, you know, so you can say maybe we should make all these drugs legal. well, yeah, but the opioid epidemic starts. with legal drugs, right? it's not an illegal drug that starts the stuff. it's doctors and pharmaceutical companies promoting a hell out of this and this brings me to another part of this topic that i think is and i wrote about a little bit and the least of us. and that is to say that i'm not su

host: author sam quinones, what do portsmouth, ohio, los angeles,

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host: author sam quinones, what do portsmouth, ohio, los angeles, boston, and columbus, ohio all have in common? sam: great question. good to be with you, peter. they all have in common that they are part of the large tapestry of the addiction epidemic that is now coast to coast. i would have said a few years ago, the opioid addiction epidemic, but i do believe that

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